Pink and Red Jackets

 

Beautiful

Pink and red jackets

Cheap vinyl and polyester

Bobbing in the cold

I look anxiously about for good things

And find the nice colors

Of their clothes

Pink and red jackets

Revealing

Closet romantics

Disguised

Beneath thick red plastic skins

You are like my children

Whom I cannot love without reservation

I cannot help but wonder what you all really look like

Beneath those colorful red and pink clothes

 

 

by Hugh M. Lewis

The Great Wall

Poesy From China

1998-9


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Last Updated: 03/15/05